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Planned Maintenance Systems for Workboats
Planned Maintenance Systems (PMS) is typically a software application to monitor, alert and record all the routine and scheduled maintenance tasks required on a vessel to maintain its efficiency.
In years gone by this type of software maintenance tool was typically employed only on larger vessels with
complex maintenance tasks and routines and very often were part of their class survey.
TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS As workboats have technically become more advanced and complex in their own right the relentless drive to find operation savings, this thinking is changing rapidly and so have the economics.
For example a routine 22 metre CTV work boat which can now very often cost between 2-3 million pounds with a drive train worth circa £250K. Maintaining, monitoring and protecting your most valuable asset with a PMS system to ensure optimum performance makes economic sense.
Relying on simple spreadsheets or paper records to keep on top of your vessel maintenance can only take you so far compared to an advanced Planned Maintenance System which can be automated and alerts you to what tasks are due on the vessel and from onshore.
PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE ‘Prevention is better than cure’ has never been so true particularly with the cost of a turbo failure on a high performance engine can be £40K and the inevitable downtime and disruption to your business and reputation.
PMS systems today reduce the administration involved in managing routine preventative maintenance, reporting and have many advanced features to help increase operational efficiency for example…
WORKBOATS
This innovative solution can play an integral part of any vessels SEEMP strategy, reducing emissions and meeting compliance regulations. Remote vessel management offers reduced down time for unplanned engine maintenance, automation of daily reports, reduced fuel consumption, (including monitoring Skipper behaviour) and combines engine diagnostics and automated vessel efficiency reporting.
Vessel PMS applications has been widely adopted for many years in the larger fleets however what is new is by integrating a new AST maritime remote sensing and engine diagnostic system, iRAMS with a PMS now offers a solution providing the ‘right information at the right time’.
SPECIFICS
• Predictive maintenance • Root cause analysis • Automation of vessel data reporting • Defect reports
STAFF COMMITMENT
Successful examples of implementing a new PMS systems require an investment in time, training and commitment by all the staff. If you are thinking of introducing a new PMS system, the most important investment at the outset is the initial population of the PMS of the vessel data which is a skilled task normally undertaken by a Chief Engineer.
The population of vessel data is a one off task however like most things in life, ‘you get out what you put in’. The initial population for a CTV work boat will normally take a suitably qualified engineer 1-2 days depending on the complexity of the vessel.
The cost of introducing a PMS clearly is a factor but can pale into insignificance when compared to avoiding an expensive engine repair and unplanned maintenance days. It can very often add less obvious benefits with the more advanced PMS systems for example providing HSE reporting for clients.
iRAMS
One new solution which has focused on this sector is iRAMS/Planned Maintenance System from AST Marine Sciences which has been developed specifically for the maritime work boat market.
Operating globally via satellite, iRAMS will be of particular interest to vessel operators with limited engineering resources on board as it provides a range of engine logging data and diagnostic information shore side via the GUI. Combined with a range of configurable alerts, sent via SMS or e-mail to the Operations Manager or Fleet Engineer, the system provides early warning alerts of anomalies before they become problematic.
Included in the iRAMS GUI is ‘spatial mapping data', offering detailed global windfarm locations. This enables users to set geo-fences/alerts around particular windfarms, or even individual wind turbines, notifying when a vessel arrives or departs its destination. AIS data can also be fed into iRAMS and displayed on the GUI mapping, allowing the geo-fencing alerting function to be available to all AIS vessels.
REPORTING
The reporting functionality of iRAMS has been developed to improve vessel efficiency allowing users to create automated reports that are e-mailed on a daily/weekly/monthly basis using either user defined parameters or pre-set comparison reports e.g. engine hour v fuel consumption.
Sam Woodcock Technical Director AST Marine Sciences
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